Bottle and label protector



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BOTTLE AND LABEL PROTECTOR.

No. 372,464. Patented Nov. 1, 1887.

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BOTTLE AND LABEL PROTECTOR.

No. 372.464. Patented Nov. 1, 1887.

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AUGUST GRISI, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE AND LABEL PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,464, dated November 1, 1887,

Application filed July 8, 1887. Serial No. 243,766. (ModcL) To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST GRISLOf Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Bottle and Label Protector, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists of the construction of the protector, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bottle having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the form of the blank ofthe protector or the protector itself before being applied to the bottle. Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of a part of the protector, showing one of the tongues a.

A designates the bottle provided with the label B, and O designates the protector placed upon the bottle over the label and held by a fastening device at the back of the bottle. The protector is formed with an opening, 0, to re veal the print or name of the label, as shown in Fig. 1, but otherwise covers the label, so that it cannot be removed from the bottle. The protector is made of sheet-lead, or other material of similar or appropriate nature, stamped to form, in addition to the opening 0, the two breast'pieces D D, that project diagonally upward from the upper edge of the protector and diverge from each other so that they are adapted to embrace the bottle A above its bilge, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2. In stamping the protector,the small tongues a a are severed from the sheet along the edges which are adapted to receive the lacing-wire E, or the short fastening-wires f, or both, as shown in Fig. 2, for securing the protector to the bottle. The protector is also stamped,in ornamental outline or form,with the series of open spaeesg g and cross-bars h. The protector is applied to the bottle, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and fastened by the tongues a a and wires, so that it cannot be readily removed and so that it acts as a full and complete protector to the label and also to the bottle.

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacti'tre, the bottle and label protector herein shown and described, the same consisting of a sheetmetal body and breastpieces D, the body be ing formed with an opening, 0, and the body and breast-pieces formed with fastening de vices or clips, substantially as described.

2. The body of the protector formed with the diagonal breast-pieces D at its upper edge, substantially as described.

AUGUST GRISI.

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